Abstract

The purpose of this study is to indicate the roles of schools for special needs education as a shelter in earthquake and the issues of environment management for people who need special support. The research targets are two prefectural schools for special needs education and one municipal mainstream school all of which were used as shelters in the Kumamoto earthquake, 2016. We analyzed the common and individual features of the three schools in the process of management of the shelters, the situation of acceptance of the evacuees, the way of using school facilities as a shelter, the needs and supply of special support, the issues of shelter management and so on.